Fashions come and go and or a good indicator of the times we live in above all true for half a century french designers. Was considered an all fall in the fashion world a visionary right up to his dazzling finale in january 2020 who will lead the way in future. Fashions not. Just seem in changing we all may be seeing good order off maybe seeing as you know. John browns are close on gross acres and well. Is experiencing a transition arts 21. 00 is on the lookout for trailblazers and finds them in the most unlikely places. Morocco the reka valley in the foothills of the high Atlas Mountains a photo shoot for vogue arabia. To the low hard grew up in the mountains she is the face of maize all artsy a fashion label founded by an american. The israeli moroccan designer likes to experiment with the countrys culture and traditions. Completely. If the color of their thanks to repeat the way i mix the think the people the way i feel about it think they happiness in a whole new universe of someth
Was founded in 1894 and has been continuous ever since. Today well be going into the immersive West Virginia state museum. Well be talking about the early frontier and settlement period, the development of the state, becoming a state, the industrialization of the state, and well go into the later century, the 21st century, and see where West Virginia is today. Were in the West Virginia state museum settlement and frontier period. These are some of the earliest settlers of the land. Were standing beside George Washingtons case where it has specific artifacts such as his sword, his powder horn that he carved during the American Revolutionary war, and the telescope that he used to survey land here, as well as in the eastern panhandle. George washington would have been here in the mid 1700s. During this time period frontier and early settlement, this was western virginia. It was part of the state of virginia at the time and it was an area that wasnt greatly developed. A lot of the ideas of
Recently shes presented her research at civil war roundtables and historical groups in california and across the nation including the National Museum of civil war medicine. Her first nonfiction history book released in spring 2019 call out the cadets takes a fresh look at the battle of new mark. In previous years shes published three historical Fiction Books in order to make details more accessible to audiences outside the history field, currently working on several Civil War Research projects including the citizens and armies in the virginia Shenandoah Valley. As you heard last night shes a crucial part of our team. She manages our website, she provides a lot of the content, she edits our work, edits some of our box and she has a fulltime job and she lives in california. We are grateful to sarah. [ applause ] good morning. I just want to say thank you to rob and dee an for inviting me to share this presentation. We kind of had a back room discussion about a year ago in how does new ma
We have coming up. Later this week we have romance writer duo Christina Lauren here with boston globe on thursday. Next week on tuesday we are hosting former poet lawyer Robert Pinsky along with a few contributors for the new anthology the mind has cliff to fall, next wednesday we are hosting ncc usual the alice of boston history. He got many more events coming up and you can find more information on our website and in the brochures by the registers when you pick up your copy of the book tonight. Tonight we are so glad to be hosting Holly Jackson for her new book american radicals, how a 19thcentury protest shape the nation. But page magazine calls it magnificent calling abwho protested wrongs in their society deserve wide readership. Many find Academic Studies have cover the subjects here but this account written for a general audience is authoritative and fastpaced and visibly portrays a crucial period. In publisher weekly star review wrote electric, this is essential reading for any
Thank you all for coming out tonight and supporting your local independent and Employee Owned bookstore. [applause] before we begin tonight i want to mention other programming we have coming up on thursday per code next week on tuesday we host former poet laureate along with a few contributors for his new anthology next wednesday we are hosting for the atlantis boston history many more events coming up you can find more information up by the registers when you pick up 19 century protest book page magazine well written in interviews that deserves a livelier but this is a general audience too vividly portrays this is essential reading for how the us became what it is today Holly Jackson and associate professor of massachusetts bostons in the New York Times Washington Post and boston globe as well as other venues the author of one previous book a scholarly study of family values in 19 century American Literature and culture living in cambridge massachusetts we are glad to have one have he